Athletics: Two-time Olympian Tulu to join NY marathon

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Agence France-Presse
First Posted 08:44:00 10/22/2009

Filed Under: Athletics and Track and Field, Sport, Marathon

NEW YORK ? Two-time Olympic 10,000-meter champion Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia will race the New York City Marathon on November 1, organizers said Wednesday.

Tulu, 37, won Olympic 10,000m gold in 1992 and 2000, and took bronze at the 2004 Athens Games.

She also captured World Championship gold at 10,000m in 2001 ? the same year she finished third in the London Marathon.

Tulu has raced the New York City Marathon once before, finishing third in 2005.

She joins a women's field that features two-time defending champion Paula Radcliffe of Britain, 2000 winner Ludmila Petrova of Russia, who was second last year, Yuri Kano of Japan, Christelle Daunay of France and the reigning Boston Marathon champion Salina Kosgei of Kenya.